We thank Ms. Mindy Okura‐Marszycki and Mr. Vishnu Narayanan of Wiley for their timely help and encouragements. We extend a special note of thanks to Prof. G.S. Brah, Founder Director, and Prof. Ramneek Verma, Director, of the School of Animal Biotechnology, GADVASU, Ludhiana, for providing the conducive working environment and for inspiring us to contribute to the field of bioinformatics. They evaluated some of the chapters and raised critical questions for improving the quality. The authors thankfully appreciate Miss J.K. Dhanoa and Ms. H.K. Manku for thoroughly checking the syntax of the manuscript, helping in editing and framing the diagrams in the proper format. The chapters were also evaluated for lucidness and ease of understanding by the graduate students of the Iowa State University, Mrs. Supreet Kaur (MSc Biochemistry) and Shravanti Krishna (PhD Biochemistry). Sincere thanks are extended to Dr. Nikhlesh Singh (Assistant Professor, Physiology, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis, USA), Dr Monson Melissa (Postdoc Research Associate, Animal Science, Iowa State University) and Dr. Sangita Singh (Post Doc., Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University) for their constructive criticisms to improve the chapters. Dr. Shivani Sood, Assistant Prof. (Biotechnology, Mukand Lal National College, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India), deserves special mention for critically checking the chapters and giving constructive input. All the freely available software and databases covered in this book are duly acknowledged. We are obliged to all those who have directly or indirectly contributed to writing this book.

Our sources of inspiration have been our families, colleagues and students. Nevertheless, we bow before the Almighty and Mother Nature for giving us the potential to accomplish the task.